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Not one but two Star Wars AI controversies within a week? First Lucasfilm itself was touting some objectively terrible AI ...
It didn't take long after Epic Games unleashed famous Star Wars Sith lord Darth Vader into the game Fortnite -- complete with ...
The history of Star Wars is the history of visual effects. For decades, Lucasfilm and its effects division Industrial Light & ...
Greedo shooting first, a CGI Jabba the Hutt, and "somehow Palpatine returned" are no longer the worst things in 'Star Wars.' ...
James Earl Jones's estate allowed "Fortnite" to use the late actor's voice for its Darth Vader character. Epic Games had to ...
Mere hours after the debut of AI Darth Vader in Fortnite, the character began spewing racial slurs and making real-world ...
Star Wars has been a huge influence on visual effects in cinema. Lucasfilm and its VFX division Industrial Light & Magic (ILM ...
The actors guild filed an unfair-labor-practice complaint against Epic Games for Fortnite's use of Darth Vader's AI voice.
The union has now filed an unfair labor practice charge (link to the PDF is on the SAG-AFTRA website) that calls out “ ...
Fortnite used conversational AI to replicate James Earl Jones' voice as Star Wars' Darth Vader, which has sparked a complaint ...
A generative AI version of James Earl Jones' iconic Darth Vader voice is now available in Fortnite. “We hope that this ...